spiritualized ladies & gents, we're floating...7 years later

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how do you think it holds up?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 14 February 2005 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Was thinking about songs from it the other day. There's a bit emotional baggage from the time I remember still with a bit of regret.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 February 2005 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

ah its still fabulous. yes indeed and will be for awhile to come i think

― gallantseagull, Monday, 14 February 2005 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Three indispensable songs, the rest I can leave or take.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 14 February 2005 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to love this record. It's a little too sappy/sweeping/swill for me these days, but that's just the phase I'm in right now. The title track, "Broken Heart," and "Home of the Brave," are all cold classics for me... Hm. I think I'll listen to it tonight.

I prefer Perfect Prescription almost any day, though.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 14 February 2005 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

It definitely holds up, but I think it's slipped in the SPZ canon. "Let It Come Down" made me re-evaluate what I liked best about Spiritualized.

At the end of the 90's, I had LAGWAFIS as my #9 album of the decade. When we did the ILM list recently, I dropped it to about #20, in part because I think "Let It Come Down" is much better and as a result, I'm not so sure exactly how I feel about LAGWAFIS anymore.

(note: OTOH, my opinion on "Pure Phase" hasn't changed -- I still think it's their best, and is still one of my top three albums of the 90's)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 14 February 2005 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

the zero-gravity guitar drone DEFINES "monotonous"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 14 February 2005 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Albums don't get any more perfect than this. Well, except for "Cool Waves" which gets a little too big for its britches and just barely (ok, handily) crosses the line of emotional sap. Despite that, one of the best albums ever.

I'm surprised about the Let It Come Down over LAGWAFIS comment. I guess I always just assumed that anyone who liked later Spiritualized preferred the latter.

― Shane (Shane), Monday, 14 February 2005 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

And I always thought everyone rated Lazer Guided Melodies the most.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 14 February 2005 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree with the fellow who said Pure Phase is their best album. Except my copy is the rather tawdry 1999 re issue.

― elwisty (elwisty), Monday, 14 February 2005 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I sold it years ago but I could see giving it another try. At this moment I have a strong desire to hear the first couple songs. Definitely starts strong.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 14 February 2005 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Lazer Guided Melodies is still amazing. I find myself playing the whole album through but it's the first three tracks that save it. Pure Phase I had almost forgotten about. Sigh.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 14 February 2005 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"Let it come down" is best, Ladies and Gents is maybe my least favourite apart from the last one.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 14 February 2005 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

whoah, this is like some parallel universe. i almost got laughed off another board a year or two ago for suggesting LICD was my favorite Spiz album. Now it seems like I'm just another voice in the chorus. Great record from top to bottom - the lyrics are terrific, the song melodies sublime and the energy/lethargy ratio on the album is arguably unique - to go from the rousing chug of "i'm sitting here looking at the TV burning holes in everything that i can" to the lazy, stoner-lullaby lines "and i don't fall of the wagon you know i take a dive and go as deep as I can go"

ladies and gentleman is still a good record, but it feels like the transition to their masterpiece (LICD). "i think i'm in love" is probably my favorite on the record these days, and i don't know if i wore out the title track or if the overuse of the canon melody in general jsut wore me out, but i can't really enjoy listening to that particualr track anymore. i don't hate it, but it's just kinda...there.

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 14 February 2005 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

and pardon my typos
it's early

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 14 February 2005 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i've never met *anyone* who preferred 'let it come down'. *ever*. so much so i never even got it, and i loved 'l&gwafis'. though maybe like ned: baggage.

― Henry Miller, Monday, 14 February 2005 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Leeeter van den Hoogenband OTM, and same with everyone who rates Lazer Guided Meldies top shelf. I'd say the three good songs on L&GWARFiS are the first one, "I Think I'm in Love," and . . . maybe there's only two.

― Robert Langdon, Monday, 14 February 2005 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

'I think I'm in love' is ver 'lized's best track.

― Henry Miller, Monday, 14 February 2005 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Best. Promo. Packaging. Ever.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Monday, 14 February 2005 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

whoah, this is like some parallel universe. i almost got laughed off another board a year or two ago for suggesting LICD was my favorite Spiz album.

Well, I got laughed off this board about a year ago when I first made my now regular Pure Phase, LICD > LGM, LAGWAFIS comments, so either the people on this thread are particularly forgiving or opinions really are changing!

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 14 February 2005 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I think a brief tour of previous ILM threads will reveal that most folks hated Let It Come Down - it got a critical drubbing, everyone calling it "bombastic" and "overproduced". I thought it was great from first listen, but I likewise remember being laughed off the board. I might actually put it ahead of LAGWAFIS as well - they lyrics are better, sonically it's got this great consistency to it, it's not just a wall of sound it's a *holy mountain* of sound. But I don't remember too many people agreeing with me at the time of its release. "Do It All Over Again", "The Straight and Narrow" (soooo sweeeet!), "The Twelve Steps" - super-solid songwriting there. LAGWAFIS is wilder, more willfully eclectic - which is both a strength and a weakness for it.

(altho its true, their packaging for LAGWAFIS was some sort of inspired high point for them design-wise)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 14 February 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

This is still far and away my favourite Spiritualized album - I could quite happily do without all the others, but this is just wonderful.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 14 February 2005 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't find a thread in the archives about LICD specifically, but a search for comments about it reveals a number of rather hars hand dismissive posts from Ned, Kilian, Chris Barrus, plus some other people I don't recognize...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 14 February 2005 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it was Marcello who had the best putdown of LICD on record. Must.Search.Archives.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 14 February 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Spiritualized In One Easy Lesson! (Bleeding Obvious Targets Vol 2)

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 14 February 2005 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I never really understood why this album was so highly praised over other Spiritualized records.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 14 February 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I never thought that piece was funny.

xpost

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 14 February 2005 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Was listening to this the other day for the first time in ages. "Think I'm in Love" is a great tune.

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 14 February 2005 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

It's funny cause it's true.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 14 February 2005 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Marcello has a weird vision of Spiritualized - I'm not sure it's funny cuz it seems sorta willfully innacurate, it really strains to make the joke work. Those lyrics, for example, scan more like a Donovan or T. Rex parody with all the silly rhymes - and that dismissal of the "free jazz" stuff with that dig about him "never having heard Ascension" is just petty and stupid. He may be over-reverent to his sources, but to then imply that he's also unaware of those sources (ie, a dilletante) doesn't make any sense. And fwiw I've always been impressed with the breadth of Pierce's musical knowledge in interviews - he's always listening to stuff you wouldn't expect him to, or promoting relative obscurities (like the Staple Singers' gospel works, or Matthew Shipp).

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 14 February 2005 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Good lord, you people, that's astoundingly funny.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 February 2005 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

if it was funny, I would've laughed. The jokes seemed really obvious to me.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 14 February 2005 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, that other thread was like reading the transcripts of a television program that starts off with a fairly amusing stand-up routine and dwindles into to a melodramatic soap opera with a moral ending.

aka could only be a spiz thread.

(more threads like that one please.)

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 14 February 2005 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

oh come on... the marcello thing would be great for for this alone:
“Just say no to drugs. ‘Cos baby it’s tragic. But just say yes. To boogie woogie piano magic.”

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 14 February 2005 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Spiritualized make the most effortless, mono-idea music I can think of, but that's part of the reason that I love them. Ladies and Gentlemen is the zenith of my version of Spiritualized. I'm aware that they can do other stuff, I just don't see why they bother.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Monday, 14 February 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

the marcello piece is very good. i stick by my harsh and dismissive posts about LICD - i didn't like the OTT arrangements on that one, and pierce's lyrical schtick had become extremely tiresome.

ladies and gents...is better. bombastic arrangements again, but they seemed to be that way for a purpose - rather than just piled up, size for size's sake like on LICD.

i haven't listened to spiritualized in a while, but i suspect i wouldn't enjoy ladies & gents that much if i heard it again (though i definitely liked it a lot when it came out). the last time i listened to spiritualized, i was enjoying the cool ambience of "laser guided melodies" much more than anything else in their catalogue.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 14 February 2005 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Laser Guided Melodies is something of the consensus fave, isn't it? It's certainly the one I go back to the most. That may just be for sentimental reasons tho (ie, discovering it the same summer I discovered weed)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 14 February 2005 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

laser guided melodies = the popular favourite among big spiritualized fans.
ladies & gents = the popular favourite among more casual spiritualized fans.

although, i would consider myself a casual fan, and laser guided melodies is probably my favourite.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 14 February 2005 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

This was my first Spz album and it hit all the right buttons (breakfast right out of a bottle/off of a mirror is powerful stuff to a baby corny indie fuxx04), got me into them and then Spacemen 3 and the Sp* bands, like steamer-trunk heavily into them. But that passed and now I hardly listen to any of that, though I don't hate 'em.

But anyway, I probably like this one best of Pierce's post- stuff, though for a time Pure Phase eclipsed it, and now I imagine LGM would hit pretty close if I were to listen again, which I won't. "I Think I'm In Love" is pretty awesome, as is Marcello's post ("Stratofendercastpaul").

― W i l l (common_person), Monday, 14 February 2005 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

all of spiz's albums are really 'ambient'. 'pure phase' has the same high-pitched drone running throughout doesn't it? L&GWAFIS has something ineffable too. i find it weird listening to it now because i listened to it all the time, and it wasn't all that healthy. it was designed for 17 year-old boys, wasn't it? but made by a 35-year-old man. 'LGM' is more listenable as a non-broken-hearted 24 year old, but L&G is still a greater achievement.

― Henry Miller, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Spiritualized are rubbish, but this may be the least rubbish of their albums. Lazer Guided Melodies has one good track - the opener (name?) which built nicely. Virtually everything else has been intolerable - cluttered mid-frequency drones with no space and no light and shade. And bloody gospel choirs.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I never listen to Spiritualized at all now, but at the time I liked Lazer Guided Melodies, especially the second side. I bought Pure Phase when it came out and was a bit underwhelmed - the best thing about it was the luminous case. I never really understood why Ladies & Gentlemen was such a commerical success as it didn't seem to be that much of a departure from Pure Phase - just less focused and more gospel. I like about two or three songs from it (Come Together, I Think I'm In Love, ?), but I've never listened to anything at all they've done since then.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

it was successful because it was poppier ('electricity', 'come together') and because it caught the wave of post-britpop '97 smarter-than-the-average-dadrocker lps which include 'ok computer' and 'urban hymns'. it's a more varied piece than any of the other albums.

― Henry Miller, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't actually listened to it in years.

― Kate Kept Me Alive! (kate), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Impressed by it in theory; could enjoy it up to a point; but never loved it. That full-on cathedral-of-sound maximalist approach: for me, it formed a barrier. So densely packed that I couldn't find a way inside; all I could do was stand outside and gawp up in awed stupefaction. As my partner is so fond of saying: too many notes.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i loved this when it came out. adored it. and yes, it's not without a share of emotional baggage attached. must have been a difficult year for us all ;)

the big argument, IIRC, was over which was better: this or "ok computer". with hindsight, that looks like a no-brainer. i'm fairly sure i argued until i was blue in the face that L&G was vastly superior and that time would prove me right ... ah well.

it was "broken heart" that did it for me every time. these days i prefer the instrumental version on the complete works set, but back then it touched something deep inside my confused 22-year-old self.

what put me off spiritualized for years was seeing them live at the barrowland in glasgow. they did an interminable version of cop shoot cop that seemed to never end. people died of boredom, were reincarnated, lived through the whole thing again and died a second time before they finally shut the fuck up.

oddly, though, my favourite spiritualized album is the albert hall one. make of that what you will.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha! otm. i liked the live lp but *actually seeing them live* was an out-and-out nightmare. more drugged up than black grape.

― Henry Miller, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

It must be the most overrated album of the 90s, and as I'm sure you all appreciate, that's up against some pretty stiff competition.

― themonkeyboy, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Dadrock now includes 'ok computer' and 'urban hymns'? Let's rewrite the french revolution to be over stinky cheese while we are at it.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

smarter-than-the-average-dadrocker -- by this i meant the music, though basically trad rock (dr john is playing in my front room), was a lot better/more sophisticated than oasis, ocs, etc. 'urban hymns' is pretty close to dadrock. though i can see 'ok computer' was less dadrocky, its fans (nme readers, students) were more likely to be dadrock fans than not.

― Henry Miller, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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Tickets are £32.50/£27.50 or thereabouts. Also, “To tie in with the live performance, Sony Music will be releasing an expanded Legacy Edition of "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space" in October with added content and new packaging. More details tbc.”

Added content? Is there really anything just lying about, except the Elvis version of the first track?

― chord simple (j.o.n.a), Monday, 16 March 2009 10:22 (sixteen years ago)

The "Electricity" single was a good value double pack with loads of live tracks, and got me into the band.

The "Think I'm in love" Abbey Road sessions, um, etc?

― Mark G, Monday, 16 March 2009 10:30 (sixteen years ago)

when deciding on whether to go to something amazing live i don't usually judge my decision on whether
i can sit in my room and listen to a cd of it instead.

― Jamie_ATP, Monday, 16 March 2009 10:30 (sixteen years ago)

cop shoot cop (bonus beats)

― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 16 March 2009 10:30 (sixteen years ago)

xpost yeah, but that wasn't my point as such.

I forgot what it was, but hmm.

― Mark G, Monday, 16 March 2009 10:37 (sixteen years ago)

i never *got* this record tbh

― fuck bein hard, BIG HOOS is complicated (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 16 March 2009 10:38 (sixteen years ago)

bit of a break-up record

― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 16 March 2009 10:40 (sixteen years ago)

good to know

― fuck bein hard, BIG HOOS is complicated (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 16 March 2009 10:46 (sixteen years ago)

saw them in brighton last year, without horns or choir, and they were fabulous

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 16 March 2009 10:48 (sixteen years ago)

The "Electricity" single was a good value double pack with loads of live tracks, and got me into the band.

The "Think I'm in love" Abbey Road sessions, um, etc?

Yeah, I was thinking of things that I haven't already got, tbh. Oh, there's that Death in Vegas remix of something (Come Together, I imagine), that wasn't released on Abbey Road was it? (lol big beat).

I thought the point of these Don't Look Back shows was that it was meant to be a chance to hear a record that hadn't really been played live, and Live at the RAH is pretty much this record live.

If he gets the 1997 band back together I'll go, but they're pretty boring at the moment in my opinion.

― chord simple (j.o.n.a), Monday, 16 March 2009 10:51 (sixteen years ago)

i'll go if he gets kate radley (is that her name?) back

― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 16 March 2009 11:16 (sixteen years ago)

Richard Ashcroft might have something to say about that.

― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Monday, 16 March 2009 11:18 (sixteen years ago)

The funniest moment ever was when they got some big award for "Lads and Germs" and Kate left Richard Ashcroft, popped up onstage w/ Jason and crew for the bows, then rejoined Richard's table.

Call it closure.

xpost

― Mark G, Monday, 16 March 2009 11:19 (sixteen years ago)

There's a wicked Chemical Brothers remix of I Think I'm In Love that could be added, plus, if licensing is sorted, the original version of the title track that cribs Elvis.

― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 16 March 2009 11:40 (sixteen years ago)

I don't think that was the funniest moment ever.

― Two hands in the air, that's the Lampard Skank (Matt DC), Monday, 16 March 2009 11:45 (sixteen years ago)

poll

― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 16 March 2009 11:46 (sixteen years ago)

when deciding on whether to go to something amazing live i don't usually judge my decision on whether
i can sit in my room and listen to a cd of it instead.

yeah but the RAH album is amazing, and the 2009 band is a shrivelled dick

― IRL Consequences by Godley & Creme (sic), Monday, 16 March 2009 11:51 (sixteen years ago)

Funniest moment ever in the history of Spiritualized, I mean.

Admittedly, if you polled against the Chuckle Brothers....

― Mark G, Monday, 16 March 2009 11:51 (sixteen years ago)

i never *got* this record tbh

^^^ i even sold it back, which i like never do. who knows, i might enjoy it now.

― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Monday, 16 March 2009 13:09 (sixteen years ago)

when deciding on whether to go to something amazing live i don't usually judge my decision on whether
i can sit in my room and listen to a cd of it instead.

Oh snap.

(I agree.)

― ilxor, Monday, 16 March 2009 14:14 (sixteen years ago)

yeah but the RAH album is amazing, and the 2009 band is a shrivelled dick

"Let It Flow" live tracks & Fucked Up Inside >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> RAH

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 16 March 2009 15:50 (sixteen years ago)

OTM x a billion

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 16 March 2009 23:09 (sixteen years ago)

they've added another date. dunno how they got my email to tell me that.

― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:56 (sixteen years ago)

Seeing as my girlfriend's surprised me with tickets I'm extremely excited about this gig now! Can't wait! Roll on whenever it is!

― chord simple (j.o.n.a), Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:58 (sixteen years ago)

eight months pass...

New black packaged 'legacy' version came out today. I picked up the 3-disc fancy edition which has the album in a blister pill-pack and then two discs of extra gubbins. Not listened yet, mind, but felt sure it could raise some discussion here. Here's the gen:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_and_Gentlemen_We_Are_Floating_in_Space#Legacy

― krakow, Monday, 30 November 2009 23:31 (sixteen years ago)

1. "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space" (A Cappella) – 2:33
2. "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space" (Demo) – 2:54
3. "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space" (Strings) – 1:40
4. "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space" (Kate Telephone Call) – 1:21
5. "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space" (Moles Studio Mix 7) – 4:48
6. "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space" (Original Oratone Ideas) – 0:42
7. "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space" (A Cappella with Lead Vocal) – 1:57
8. "Come Together" (Instrumental Demo) – 3:18
9. "Come Together" (Demo in Lower Key) – 4:02
10. "I Think I'm in Love" (Original Demo Idea) – 1:01
11. "I Think I'm in Love" (Demo) – 2:04
12. "I Think I'm in Love" (Drums/Wah) – 4:16
13. "I Think I'm in Love" (A Cappella) – 1:38
14. "I Think I'm in Love" (Vocal Demo January 1996) – 3:31
15. "I Think I'm in Love" (Gospel Choir Session) – 1:18
16. "All of My Thoughts" (Demo) – 3:52
17. "All of My Thoughts" (Strings) – 0:38
18. "Rocket Shaped Song" – 8:16
and
1. "Electricity" (Demo) – 3:34
2. "Electricity" (January 1996) – 5:07
3. "Electricity" (June 1996) – 4:55
4. "Home of the Brave" (Demo) – 3:48
5. "Home of the Brave" (Panned Vocal) – 2:40
6. "Beautiful Happiness" – 5:14
7. "Broken Heart" (Demo) – 2:15
8. "Broken Heart" (Strings) – 1:52
9. "Broken Heart" (Vocal Harmony/Angel Corpus Christi) – 2:41
10. "Broken Heart" (Early Vocal) – 0:50
11. "No God Only Religion" (Demo) – 4:05
12. "No God Only Religion" (Horns) – 2:48
13. "Cool Waves" (Demo) – 1:00
14. "Cool Waves" (String Session Mix) – 6:10
15. "Cop Shoot Cop..." (Demo) – 2:47
16. "Cop Shoot Cop..." (Dr. John The National Anthem) – 6:22
17. "Cop Shoot Cop..." (String Session Mix) – 3:46

no way could it get boring listening to those two discs in full, in order

― Santa Boars (winshit@burgerfuel.co.nz) (sic), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 04:23 (sixteen years ago)

I need the live stuff from those let it flow singles.
Best version of "take good care of it."

― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 04:32 (sixteen years ago)

LAGWAFIS ended my love affair with Spiritualized, but when it came out they completely dominated my listening.
Haven't bought a single one of their records since, actually. But I saw them in 2001 and it was really really good.

― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 04:34 (sixteen years ago)

Oh and of course "Elvis" version of the opening track KILLS the other one.
My girlfriend's sister worked at Arista at the time and I got a promo cassette copy of the album a few weeks (months?)before it came out. Was really let down by the official version.

― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 04:36 (sixteen years ago)

3 disc fancy edition?

There's an even fancier edition....

https://www.atpfestival.com/spiritualized.php

― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 08:03 (sixteen years ago)

125 quid for a 1000-copy edition? Wow. That's what I call gouging.

― anagram, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 08:57 (sixteen years ago)

What about $85 for the 3-CD version?

― Stevie D, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 08:59 (sixteen years ago)

Aye, I couldn't stretch to the limited one. No extra material compared to the three disc, so I'm not massively bothered.
Getting a prescription written out in your name by Jason himself would have been pretty cool though.

― krakow, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 09:11 (sixteen years ago)

The only difference is that the tracks do not crossfade into each other, so are 'slightly' longer versions. Possibly with 'endings'. Possibly.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 09:30 (sixteen years ago)

can i please bring some challops? pure phase >>>>>> LICD > LGM >>>>>>>>>>>>> LAG

LAG has precisely one good song (i think i'm in love) and the albert hall version destroys the original

pure phase is a masterpiece

― a. cole, u thic (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 09:41 (sixteen years ago)

No-one's mentioned Songs in A&E yet. It's no masterpiece but it far outstrips Amazing Grace. And when I saw them live in Krems earlier this year it was pretty transcendent.

― anagram, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 09:46 (sixteen years ago)

SIA&E is ok...'the waves crash in' is lovely

― a. cole, u thic (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 09:48 (sixteen years ago)

That's mean Mark G! You make me wonder and want. Possibly. ;-)

― krakow, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 20:42 (sixteen years ago)

Originally packaged as a giant pill offering a written prescription, the concept was creatively inspired reflecting ~~the depth of emotion and trauma laid bare on this truly remarkable work~~how Jason Pierce never tires in reminding us that he's, y'know, into drugs and all that

― WILLIM GARLOS CILLIAMS (stevie), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 23:46 (sixteen years ago)

Well, a while back I had a 'repeating search' on e-bay for the original 12CD version, to grab the tracks off it and sell it on.

But, funnily enough, it hardly ever appeared, and when it did it was intacto. (open the sealed units, knock £80 off the value)

At least with this one you get a download as well.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 08:24 (sixteen years ago)

250 euros on discogs: http://www.discogs.com/sell/item/16933567?ev=bp_titl

― krakow, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 09:04 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

How worth it are the "extra gubbins"? The three-disc version is only 7 bucks more on iTunes and I'm trying to decide whether to bother with them or not.

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 8 January 2010 18:18 (sixteen years ago)

I am dying for the live tracks from the let it flow singles if anyone can help a brother out.

― Trip Maker, Friday, 8 January 2010 18:20 (sixteen years ago)

six months pass...

So I went to see this:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4129/4847717818_c3fd899626.jpg

I still have a tremendous amount of Stockholm Syndrome when it comes to Spz. these days - awful and brilliant gigs within weeks of each other and the inevitable feeling that each new album isn't quite as good as I initially think it is. Every Spz. poster I have at home should have an X-Files-style "I Want To Believe" banner over it.

LAG is still not my favorite Spz. album (LGM wins in a TKO), but it was a big part of my life when it was released and to be fair I hadn't really reconsidered it down the line other than a brief "'I Think I'm In Love' rules. All else drools." Stretched out into a big sprawling wall of sound, I actually liked it much more than I have in the past and it helped that this was a one-time show - a stripped down touring version with less than 30 people on stage wouldn't have been nearly as great. "Cop Shoot Cop" (which I've always skipped before on album) finally fulfilled it's promise of Sun Ra covering "You Made Me Realize" - A big 20 minute splat of sound that you felt more than heard.

I think Spin is streaming the full show off of their site for the next week. Worth checking out.

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 19:33 (fifteen years ago)

This was a spectacular event and I'm not even that huge of a Spiritualized fan. What it really brought home to me is how modest and tossed-off current indie rock bands are. No current guitar rock band would attempt anything as bombastic, overwrought, melodramatic and occasionally transcendent as LAG and I think the modern scene is worse off for it. Won't soon forget this night.

― MFB, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 19:51 (fifteen years ago)

No current guitar rock band would attempt anything as bombastic, overwrought, melodramatic

Poor Muse, they'll have to try harder.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 19:54 (fifteen years ago)

poor Arcade Fire

― better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:11 (fifteen years ago)

Poor Elbow.

― krakow, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:15 (fifteen years ago)

Nothing I've heard from any of the above-mentioned comes anywhere near the same universe as "Cop Shoot Cop."

― MFB, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 21:01 (fifteen years ago)

I saw the LAG tour in Portland at a 500 capacity club. It was fucking excellent.

― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 22:34 (fifteen years ago)

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